Hilmi Sharifi

Hilmi Sharifi was an elite mameluke in the service of the Ayyubid Caliphate.

Biography
Hilmi Sharifi was from a family of Sunni Muslim Egyptians, and he was a slave under the Ayyubid Caliphate. Sharifi became a mameluke in the service of Sultan Saladin, and he was given command of the Ayyubid forces at Qaryat al-Rashid in 1192 during the Siege of Beit Alfa. He conquered the Christian settlement there in the name of Islam, leading the Saracens to victory.